In 2010 they had live srm data on about 5 rider in the tour, I remember only one of the riders because he is from Denmark Brian vandborg. On a mountain stage he was pushing 300-350 watt while climbing its difficult for me to say his average since the watts was changing all the time.

Thanx for the video. I now understand a little better Tony Martins concern, in the tour they have the alpe d'huez finish right after this descent but in the dauphine it was almost in the begining of the stage. I suspect they will ride faster in the tour maybe 2-4 minutes. Your recording is some weeks prior to your fastest time so how slow was the recording? Those who have strava can see that bart was ahead of ben king on the 1rst 5 km and after that the road is better and more straight and of course a pro peleton will ride faster than an amateur rider. Congrats on the 2nd place in vaujany

Great, thanks for sharing! It's just too bad it wasn't the fastest ride ever recorded in history so I felt a little robbed while sitting at my computer watching it [/sarcasm]Looks like you had fun (and that descent certainly is as well).Which is the whole point, is it not?

Looks a bit more 'clean' then when I did it a few years ago with lots of debris and gravel in sections. Likely some attention was made to the road surface in preparation for the Tour.http://vimeo.com/26105971Sarenne is around the 5:40 mark (between d'Huez and Sarenne) and 8:00 - end for the descent segment in question.4th place, 9th place... I'm so ashamed I'm clinging to 90th out of 1990 - but I'd be willing to bet that 1990th place had a pretty good day too.

Although I would imagine they removed the large stones from the road and filled in the drainage ditches for the Tour (everytime I was fearing a flat, which I ended up having 30-40 minutes later with 7km to go)I had never done it and really had no one around for pacing and ended up passing several. I don't remember making a remarkable effort, just trying to keep it going and taking in the scenery with my camera.. The leaders of the Tour were about 3+ minutes faster on the 16 minute descent. Pretty impressive, but also amateurs have nothing riding on the descent other than to keep it fun. But the Tour riders also tend to be quite good at this type of thing, for one reason or another.

That does look seriously dangerous to race down. We have numerous mountain descents around here that look similar, but I always take them pretty cautiously and reserve the heroics for trying to go uphill.

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